How Shakespearean

I like to fall in love with British thespians. It began in high school, when I was forced to read Shakespeare drama after Shakespeare drama. Romeo and Juliet was okay, but strangely easy to understand. That sounds really pretentious, but please remember that I was the snooty tenth grader who was easily bored in math class because the equations didn't look complicated. I'm a difficult person to please, apparently.

When I read Macbeth, I knew that there was something to be said about Shakespeare. That's probably the simplest way I can put it - we can attribute a lot of what literature became to what he did back in his time. After the Scottish play, I got to read Hamlet and King Lear. The latter is still one of the most poignantly tragic stories I have read. Seriously. A father goes mad and two of his daughters neglect and abuse him while one remains steadfast in her devotion to him? That was a terrible run-on sentence. Whatever. It's still just so goddamn sad.

So, yes, now I have this penchant to fall in love with British thespians - strangely, before I have seen them in Shakespeare. There's Patrick Stewart, of Star Trek and X-men fame. And then Ben Whishaw, whom I have loved since watching The Hour and Bright Star. Finally, there is Tom Hiddleston. Because of Avengers, Deep Blue Sea, and Midnight in Paris. Because duh.

Also, he can recite poetry.

Imagine my joy when I found out that these three actors are going to be featured in a series of BBC miniseries adaptations of Shakespearean dramas. Check out the video below.